Position in chronology
SAA 20 018. Victory and Lion-Hunt Ritual (AsT 39)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 20(1) [...] the king [......] (2) [...] Enlil [......] (3) [...] ... [......] (4) [...] Enlil [......] (5) (Break) (7) [... Belat]-dunani [......] (8) [......] he places upon it [......] (9) He ties [......, ...s] two rams [...] (10) They separate [..., bring forth] the sarrānus, and remain standing before the gods. They perform hitpu-offerings and place the sarrānus before the gods. The singer intones, “The hero got angry, enraged was the beautiful prince.” (16) The sarrānus turn their faces towards the enemy. They hum and dance. The kurgarrûs sing, “Battle is my game,” the assinnus exchange…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 20 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
[x] x-nu LUGAL ⸢x x x⸣ [x x x x x x x x x x] / [x x] x dBE [x x x x x x x x x x x x] / [x x] x ⸢x x⸣ [x x x x x x x x x x x x] / [x x x x] dBE [x x x x x x x x x x x x x] / [x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x] / [x x x x x x x x] ka [x x x x x x x] / [x x x x x dGAŠAN]—⸢du⸣-na-ni i-[x x x x x x x] / [x x x x x x ina] ⸢UGU?⸣-ḫi GAR-an x [x x x x x] / [x x x x x] ⸢i-rak⸣-kas 02 UDU.NÍTA-MEŠ [x x x x…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian royal ritual or cultic text, edited by Simo Parpola (SAA 20, 2017). ORACC text P398398.
Attribution
Image: Adapted from Simo Parpola, Assyrian Royal Rituals and Cultic Texts (State Archives of Assyria, 20), 2017. Adapted by Jamie Novotny and lemmatised by Mikko Luukko, 2017, as part of the research programme of the Alexander von Humboldt Chair in the Ancient History of the Near and Middle East at LMU Munich (Karen Radner, Humboldt Professorship 2015). The annotated edition is released under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license 3.0. Please cite this page as http://oracc.org/saao/P398398/..
Translation excerpted from Parpola, S. 2017. Assyrian Royal Rituals and Cultic Texts. SAA 20. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa20/P398398/.
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